Garment-sleeve.



.l. B. SCOLPONETI.

GARMENT SLEEVE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23. I915.

Pamntd Jan. 30, 1917.

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GARMENT-SLEEVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3d,

application-filed June 23, 1915. Serial No. 35,775.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN B, Soonronnrr, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Garment-Sleeves, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object to provide a sleeve for coats andother garments adapted to be adjusted as to its length without thenecessity of ripping the outer portion or body of the sleeve from thelining, and to have the adjusted length made permanent with the minimumexpenditure of time and labor.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed todescribe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming.

a part of this specification: Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofa portion of a coat sleeve embodying my invention, the sleeve being atits maximum length, and provided with a vent. a portion of the sleevebeing turned back; Fig. 2 represents a view similar to Fig. 1, showingthe sleeve shortened and as it appears edges of the vent is foldedinwardly; Fig. 3 represents a view similar to Fig. 2, showing one of theedges of the vent folded inwardly; Fig. 4 represents a section on line4-4- of Fig. 1. the sleeve being at itsmaximum length; Fig. 5.representsa view similar to Fig. 4:, showing The same reference charactersindicate the same or similar parts in allthe views. 1

In the drawings, 12 represents the body or outer portion of a coatsleeve, and 13 the inner portion or lining thereof, each of thesepartsbeing a tube of suitable fabric made longer than the desired lengthof the sleeve. The lining 13 is of substantially the same length as thebody 12, and the outer ends of the body and lining are united to form afinished sleeve-end 14, preferably by forming narrow folds on said outerends and uniting the folded portion by a line of stitches 15 extendingaround the sleeve, the construction of the sleeve-end being such that itis permanently finished and requires no subsequent finishing operation.

To reduce the sleeve to the desired opera tive length its outer endportion is turned Figs. 2, 3, an

before one of the.

p the sleeve shortened to its desired operative length.

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necting the cuff with the body of the sleeve, said neck constituting theend of the sleeve and being suitably reduced in thickness by pressingthe sleeve after the cuff is formed. It will be seen that the body 12and lining 13 are united. at the finished sleeve-end 1. The operation ofturning the surplus por tion of the sleeve inwardly, simultaneouslytakes up the surplus of both body and the lining, so that by suitablysecuring the finished sleeve-end 14: within the sleeve a sat-.

isi actory and durable sleeve of the desired length is provided.

The finished sleeve-end 14; may be con fined within the sleeve bysuitable fastening means of simple character, such as ordinary garmenthooks 18 and corresponding eyes. 19, as indicated byFig. 1, or bystitches applied at suitable intervals to connect the sleeve-end withthesleeve. There may of course be any desirednumber of hooks and eyes,sleeve after the final lengthof the sleeve is determined. 7

It will be seen that the finished sleeve-end 14 does not have to bedisturbed or ripped duringthe operation of securing it within thesleeve, and that the lining 13 is taken up with the body 12, the liningat all times remaining in a smoothcondition within the body and wit.

The sleeve is provided with a vent at the outer end of the usuallongitudinal inner seam 20, which extends along the inner or under sideof the sleeve. The said seam ter minates at a point at some distancefrom the the eyes being secured within the the outer end of the seam,being indicated by the reference numeral 21. The edges 22 and 23 of theportion of the sleeve extending from the end of the seam 20 form a vent,and are suitably finished like. the sleeve-end 1 1, or otherwise. Theedge 22, which is an extension of the-inner edge of one of the portionsunited by the seam 20, is turned outwardly before the operation offorming the cuff 1.6. as indicated by Fig. 1. After the cuii 16'isinwardly under the edge 23 to take up the surplus material and form aneck or fold 24 (Fig. ,8) which is flush with the edge 23. The told 24and edge 23 form the margins of a vent of variable length and arepreferably connected by concealed internal stitches to prevent the ventfrom opening.

The neck 17, forming the outer end of the formed the edge 22 is folded 4end thereof to form a finished sleeve end,

the sleeve being formed with a longitudinal inner seam, which is shorterthan the operative length of the sleeve, leaving disconnectedventforming longitudinal edges which are finished between the outei" endof said seam and the outer end of the sleeve, the sleeve end beingfolded to form a neck which may be variably spaced from the 15.

outer end of the inner seam to vary the length of the sleeve and of thevent, one of said vent-forming edges being folded under said end.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my 20 signature.

JOHN B. SCOLPONETI.

Eogpiee oi this patent may be obtained for'flve cents each, byaddressing the Gemmissioner of Eetenfsa,

Washington, D. G.

